ABSTRACT
Intervention study design by pharmacists to doctors using face-to-face interviews conducted in this study aimsto analyze potentially inappropriate medications (PIMs) with prospective data collection in the geriatric ward ofRegional General Hospital Dr.M. M. Dunda Gorontalo, Indonesia in the period from January to March 2018. Thesampling technique was a total sampling design and obtained by the end of the study were 123 patients. Results ofanalysis with Beers and screening tool of older people’s prescriptions (STOPP) from 123 patients found 54 PIMs in48 patients (39.0%) based on Beers criteria and 6 patients (6.3%) based on STOPP criteria. Bivariate analysis showedthat there was a significant relationship between the incidence of adverse drug events (ADEs), with unresolved PIMswith a relative risk value at 1.55 (95% CI 1.26:1.91), p = 0.007 and a correlation coefficient (r) of 0.332. Based on theresults of univariate and bivariate statistical analysis, it can be concluded that there are still many PIMs occurring inthe prescription of geriatric patients based on Beers and STOPP criteria and pharmacists have a large enough role toreduce the incidence of PIMs so that the prevalence of ADEs due to inappropriate use of the drug can be minimized atRegional General Hospital Dr. M. M. Dunda Gorontalo, Indonesia.